Autumn Country Teaser Rule 8

I found this paper piecing pattern on the internet. It was in Dutch, and I was able to translate the posting, but the instructions were a PDF that would not translate. (Guess I need Stephanie's Dad to look at it for me). This was an interesting piece to work on, as it is in 5 sections, which are sewn together after each section (or mold as it was called on the site). You see here parts of 4 of the sections. I don't remember the site, so will have to search for it again, as there were some other patterns that looked interesting to add later.

Marie's Optical Illusion Rule 8 Teaser

Here is my teaser for Rule 8.  My life is really busy right now so I hope that I can finish it by the deadline.  If not, I'll catch up later.

Granny Annie's Garden, Rule 7

Here is a look out of my attic window at one of my flower gardens!! Enjoy the view.

Comments *(&%$#@??

It sounds to me like Blogger has some bugs to work out.  I don't get it, some blogs I can leave comments on and others I cannot.  It also makes a difference as to which computer I use. 

Anyway, Carrie, I love your latest addition to your mystery.  The tumbling blocks were a beautiful compliment to your other blocks.  I LOVE your pinwheels too.  I have seen them made up on baby quilts before -- adorable!

Dorine & Moira, thanks for the teasers.  I have no idea what kind of bird will be making the next appearance on Dorine's project.  Moira, I can see that you have a paper-pieced pattern ready to for some fun idea.

Bird Teaser Rule 8

Here is a portion of the paper pieced portion of my block. I have never done paper piecing on such a technical pattern, so this was a real learning experience for me. I am pretty happy with it though.


I have news! For those of you who haven't heard, we got our mission call this week. We are going to be temple missionaries in the Washington DC Temple!!!! We enter the MTC on September 19 and will be serving for 12 months. Not sure yet how that will affect my quilting. Since we are driving to the mission, Gary thinks I can take my sewing machine and keep up with the quilt on P days. We'll see!!!

For those of you who are not LDS, you may not have known that retired couples can be Mormon missionaries, but we can, and we are very excited. To translate the initials, MTC is Missionary Training Center, and P day is preparation day, or our day off.

rule 8 teaser

Here's a teaser pic for my rule 8...... =) Hope to piece it this coming week.

I'm one of the ones that has not been able to add comments to the posts....tried everything I can thinking include logging out and back into blogger.... =( So I'll just that I love what everyone has done so far.

Still here

Still around and trying to find some time to sew. My life has been intense the last month, and looks like there will only be a brief lull before another round of intense, as my son says he's moving this way to finish school. Working part time is really deceiving, because I wind up trying to cram full time fun into half-time, with all the house work, the car maintenance, the errand-running, etc. I can't figure out what I did when I worked full time and had little children - other than there was never me-time and almost no sewing time, either. I've gotten selfish in the last 6 years, and it's hard to readjust! And now I have a Primary calling on top of the rest.

Trouble with Making Comments

I'm sorry that some of you are having trouble making coments or posting pictures on our blog.  I might mention that Betty was having trouble with it too and she said that signing out and signing back in didn't help, but then she signed back into her blog and it corrected everything.  I'm not sure why that made a difference, but it's worth a try for the rest of you who are having trouble. 

Carrie's Scrappy Anything Rule #7

I wanted to do something fun for rule #7, and wasn't exactly sure what. I searched the web for 3D quilt blocks and got that...folded fabric blocks that are actually 3D! Loved that idea, so I pieced two 3D pinwheels and still needed 4" on a side to make the piece the right width. Here is where I ventured into the unknown....I've only ever done one tumbling blocks block before and it involved y-seams and applique, eek! I also needed a 4" by 17-1/2" piece, what to do....

I wung it - really! After watch an really bad youtube video about strip piecing a tumbling blocks quilt, I estimated the strip width I'd need, used the wrong ruler and off I went! It was NOT easy, but I love the results. The piecing in the tubling blocks are only 1".

Sew, here's my block:

And here is a closeup to see the 3D effect on the pinwheels

And here is the tentative placement with the quilt top. I still have no idea what I am doing for rule #8, but I am catching up!

~Carrie

P.S. I didn't even realize that my son's blocks were in the photo when I took this - must be a sign that the tumbling blocks I pieced was a good idea!

Comments still not working for me

and it's really sad because Blogger keeps labeling me as "Anonymous" and that I'm not signed in, yet I am. Really weird and makes me think Blogger doesn't like me anymore LOL!

I'll post shortly about my rule #7 - I finally finished it yesterday - yahoo!

~Carrie

I am still here...

Sorry its been a crazy time lately. I still have great intentions on finishing this quilt... I am just a few rules behind. Hopefully I can do some catching up soon.

Long overdue recap

I wanted to recap the rule completions and was terribly dissappointed to discover how many months I've missed.  I'll go in reverse order:

Rule #7 was  3D, no special technique, and was completed by 9 participants so far.

We had 3D stairs, a barn, a hollow cube, mountains, a house, honeycomb waffle design, a window, vertical aligned tumbling blocks, and baby blocks. I suspect there will be more as participants find time to catch up.

Rule #6  was completed by 9 participants to date and included a structure and free-form curved piecing:

Most everyone curve pieced the background, landscapes, or the ground.  One did a road, another a pathway, and another a border around the block.

We had colorful houses, wonky houses, cabins, an outhouse, a barn, a doll house, birdhouses, and a bird's eye view of 3D houses.

Rule #5 was completed by 14 participants to date and included a pieced circle and threadpainting:

Circles appeared in the following forms:  crazy & stripped pieced, a circle in a square, moons, suns, New Year's Eve ball in Times Square, red ball, scarecrow head, birdhouse hole, silo roof, balloons, sawmill, rock wall, and a leafy tree top.

Threadpainting appeared as follows:  raw edge applique, decorative swirls, tree branches, Santa & his reindeer, ball shadow, decorative ball details, rose vines, giraffe tail, scarecrow hair hands and feet, bushes, tree branch twigs, a painted sun, balloon strings, trees, and a ladybug.

Rule #4 was completed by 13 participants  and included positive negative and needle-turn applique':

Pos/Neg:  Picture frames (still in progress), barn front, African hut door, heart, checkerboard background, gate, mittens, pinwheels, rock wall, Xs & Os, doves, leaves, and 3D ellipses.

Carrie's Scrappy Anything - thank you!

Thx for all your ideas - I sew appreciate them. Betty C - your story of my quilt top thus far was awesome! Love it :)

I am posting this here and not in the comments because for some reason Blogger will not allow me to comment on any of the posts in our blog. Other blogs on Blogger, sure, but not this one. Not sure why (maybe becuase I am behind in our rules? LOL!!!)

After careful consideration, I have decided to sew my house row onto the bottom of my quilt top...Betty's tale put the voting over the top!

Now onto working on rule #7....

~Carrie

Barn #7 complete

I finished my #7 barn block.  The barn is the 3D section.  I thread painted around the trees to make them look bushy.  I tried to create a feeling of depth with the trees.  It is supposed to look like a field in the distance.  There are also farming row on the hill by the road.

Below you can see the new piece with the main quilt.  Rule #6 at the bottom is still a work in progress.

Rule Release #8

SIZE:   Our quilts should now measure 37 1/2" tall by 31 1/2" wide because we have not joined rule #7 yet.  Rule release #7 began a column to fit on either SIDE of the project.  This rule #8 will complete that column.   Make it 20" tall by 12" wide finished  (which means 20 1/2 x 12 1/2 unfinished).  Join rules 7 & 8 on top of each other according to your preference to form a column and then to either SIDE of the quilt.

Technique:  Paper Piecing technique

Rule: include the color yellow or add a flower of any sort

DUE DATES: 
  -Teaser releases anytime you want and as often as you desire.
    -A completed photo can be released beginning on (Monday) June 27th.
  -Final due date and rule #9 release date (Fri) July 8th.  Sorry it is a little longer but some are playing catch up and several have a crazy June. 

Good luck and enjoy!!

scarecrow teaser

This is my dimensional part for rule 7.   I followed the you tube tutorial called Hollow Cube Block.   I don't have it sewn to the bg yet.  Also need to put together the rest of the area in this rule.  I will get there!

Steph's forest block 7!

It was intersting finding time to get this done.  Spring is always crazy for me because I am very involved in orchestra, and that is our competetive season.  So, not only have I had at least one performance every week, often two or three, I've also had the extra rehersals for that.  Added on all this, I'm graduation on Wednesday, and so I've had all kinds of stuff to do for that, and My grandmother (not on the same side a Dorine, Anne, and Marie, they're my aunts remember?) passed away.  Which, was a good thing, because she is not in pain anymore, but I had to help a lot with funeral prep, and then I had to catch up on what I didn't do then.  But, my block is finally done!!

I did a simple one this time around.  It looks really funny the picture, but I promise it's better in real life.  I pieced some mountains and sky, and then I did some more curved piecing for the ground, and then realized that it was supposed to be longer than I thought, so I added a river to the bottom, and I thread painted some flowers in my meadow.

I decided that it's an... artistic rendition of a meadow I know very well in the high uinta mountains, we call it five buck meadow, cause if you go inside without permission from the forest service you get a fine, supposedly.

You can't see the mountains at this angle, or a lot of flowers, but mid-summer it is FULL of gorgeous flowers.

Anyhow, there is my block, I really have no idea where it will go in relation to the rest of thw quilt yet.

Carrie's Scrappy Anything Rule #6

Had a chance this morning and was able to start AND almost finish rule #6. I used bits and pieces leftover from making my baby nephew's holiday stocking for the house bodies and straight black Kona Solid for the rooftops. The grass, sky and background are all scraps pieced together to get the right size.

I did the freeform piecing when attaching the "ground" area to the house panel. You can see the waves here (I obviously need to press better {grin}:

Now, the reason I said "almost finished" before was that I so cannot decide if I should put this panel on the top ...

or the bottom...

 of the quilt top.

Your comments please!!!!!

~Carrie

Marie's Optical Illusion Rule 7

I'm happy to get this block finished.  I got the pattern from "Big Book Of building Block Quilts" by Sara Nephew.  She calls the pattern "Honeycomb Waffle 2"  It's fun to make.  I think you can figure out how I made it from looking at my teasers.  I made it much smaller than the pattern in the book.  I've got to stop making my blocks with such small pieces because it makes it so much harder. 

For some reason the color faded out in the picture, but you still get the idea of what it looks like--it's just a little brighter in real life.

Barn #7 teaser

It just needs some applique and some trimming.  I know it looks pretty much like a mess right now though.

Bird Block #7

Here is my finished block. I am a little disappointed in it. I don't think it looks as 3-D as I had hoped. It is a modified attic window, but I had to make the window more open so you could see the cardinal flying by outside. Ah well, can't win 'em all!

Carrie's Scrappy Anything Rule #5

Well, it's almost the end of May and I am finally done with Rule #5! Woo hoo! Darn tax season for setting me so far behind {grin}.

Sew, here is my rule #5 block:

Close up of one side...this circle was pieced into the background fabric (sorry for the yellowy photo):

and the other...

this is the one with the embroidery...and raw edge applique...

and now pieced with the rest of the top...

The circle blocks came from the new magazine Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Vol 3. The top block is #292 called "Rubber Band Ball" by Lorraine Olsen. The bottom block is #228 called "Stepping Stone" by Janice Averill of Iris Quilts and Dyed Fabrics.

Onto rule #6!

~Carrie

Moira's Rule 7 Block

Here's a pic of my completed block 7. Had fun with this one, altho I do have to admit that the middle row of 'blocks' had a mind of their own and insisted on going their own direction. lol. Haven't decided which side this will go on when the side is complete, but I like how it turned out. =)

Autumn Country Rule 7

It's a little blurry, and the 3-D does not stand out as well on the picture, but the steps up from the river are my rule. The tree I did with the thread painting that I am trying to get better at. The barn is an old barn on one of the streets I frequently take. It is very old and is being torn down, so I am glad I got a picture of it before it is gone. The chickens are on the print with the sunflowers, and although they are huge in comparison with everything else, I had to add them, as they are so cute. I had Saturday afternoon to myself, so I was able to spend some time at the sewing machine, and got this finished. I may add some more fence later. We shall see.

Marie's Optical Illusion Rule 7 Teaser 2

Here is another teaser for my block.  I have my block nearly complete, but it turned out a little too narrow so I have to make and add one more row.  Can you see the pattern in it?